I have saved my progress as Shiny forehead.ai.…In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to the Gradient tool and its…partner in crime, the Gradient Annotator.…So I'm going to start things off by duplicating the gradient we've already…assigned to all the other shapes that require gradients, and they are these.…Go ahead and click on anyone of the paths that has a red stroke assigned to it,…and then go up to the Select Similar Objects icon up here in the Control panel.…Click on the down pointing arrowhead next to it and choose All, just to make…sure that you're matching all the attributes, which in this case include both…Stroke and Fill Attributes.…

We don't want those red strokes, so let's get rid of them now by going up here…to the Stroke Swatch in the Control panel and changing it to None.…And then I'll press the Enter or Return key in order to get rid of that panel,…and I'll Shift+Drag right around this area here, around the nose and the brow,…and the muzzle in order to select those shapes.…

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11/30/2010

In Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, author and industry expert Deke McClelland teaches how to take advantage of the wide array of dynamic features in Illustrator CS5. This course demonstrates how to apply these features to paths, groups, and editable text to create professional-quality artwork. The course covers Live Trace, Live Paint, and Live Color, as well as symbols, gradients, exporting, and integration with Photoshop. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Tracing a pixel-based image

Sketching and drawing for Illustrator

Creating and editing gradients

Creating multi-colored blends

Creating seamlessly repeating tile patterns

Creating interlocking artwork with Live Paint

Designing advanced type effects

Recoloring artwork with color harmonies

Making the most of symbols

Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop

Using transparency, blend modes, and opacity masks

Skill Level Intermediate

14h 53m

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Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?

A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.

Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/en_US

Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."